Improvement in ice-cutting machines



11M. RUSSELL.

L E CUTTING MACHINE. Patented Dec. 12, 18-76.

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J. MURAT RUSSELL, OF POTTERS HOLLOW, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN ICE-CUTTING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,354, dated December12, 1876; application filed October 9, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J. l\IURAT RUSSELL, ofPotters Hollow, Albany county, State of New York, 11ave invented a newand useful Ice- Outting Machine, which is set forth in theibllowing-specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing.

The object of my invention is to produce agage-plates, (marked B,) twoin number, are so arranged as to govern the depth of the cut-' ting, andmay be set according to the power attached, so as to cut from one to sixinches deep.

The plate or runner (marked 0, and attached by cross-bars to thecutting-beam on a sliding bar) governs the size oithe cake of ice. Theplatform, (marked D,) attached on the top of the cutting-bar, forms theseat for the driver or man who works the machine.

'hat I claim as my invention is The combination, with an ice-cuttingmachine, of the adjustable gage G and the vertically-adjustable gages B,substantially asand for the purpose described.

J. MURAT RUSSELL.

Witnesses:

EDGAR RUssELL, W. D. MOTT.

